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  • From: "Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>
  • To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] Former UNOCAL Exec Takes Over Afghanistan
  • Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:47:12 -0400

Matusiak wrote:
>
> "I want YOU to suffer and pay for my excess!"
>
> Former George Bush Sr. crony Hamid Karzai is quickly usurping control
> over Afghanistan for the foreseeable future. How can you trust someone
> who obviously has greater interest in Afghan energy resources than the
> actual Afghan people? This is about as respectable as Paul Bremer
> deciding that he should continue to run Iraq. The Neocon future is
> upon us.
> --
> http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040726_966.html
>
> KABUL, Afghanistan July 26, 2004 - Afghan President Hamid Karzai
> dropped a powerful warlord from his electoral ticket after intense
> political wrangling that prompted NATO peacekeepers to beef up their
> presence on the streets of the capital.
>
> The U.S.-backed interim leader selected a little-known brother of the
> late Afghan resistance hero Ahmad Shah Massood to be his chief running
> mate in a surprise move sure to test this volatile nation's fragile
> ethnic and factional balance.
>
> "I hope the Afghan people will recognize us as a good team and I hope
> the people of Afghanistan will vote for us," Karzai told reporters
> summoned to a shady courtyard of the presidential palace.
> --
> How can you vote someone in who basically stole power a few months ago?
> Atrocious.

Because they are free and can vote for whomever they want. Is that the
answer you are looking for? :-)





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